Ezekiel 44:11 Cross References - BBE

¹¹ But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.

⁵ And the Lord said to Moses, ⁶ Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers, ⁷ In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House; ⁸ And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House. ⁹ Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; so that they may be his without question from among the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹² See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel; ¹³ For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, ¹⁵ Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered. ¹⁶ So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered. ¹⁷ These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. ¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon, by their families: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. ²⁰ And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses. ²¹ From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. ²² Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred. ²³ The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. ²⁴ The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael. ²⁵ In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting, ²⁶ And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use. ²⁷ From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites. ²⁸ Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were eight thousand, six hundred, who were responsible for the care of the holy place. ²⁹ The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House. ³⁰ Their chief is Elizaphan, the son of Uzziel. ³¹ In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for. ³² Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, will be head over all the Levites and overseer of those responsible for the care of the holy place. ³³ From Merari come the Mahlites and the Mushites; these are the families of Merari. ³⁴ Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred. ³⁵ The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House. ³⁶ And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for, ³⁷ And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.

⁹ Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;

⁶ Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

¹ For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph. ² And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, ³ Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. ⁴ And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him. ⁶ And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men. ⁷ The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah. ⁸ All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom. ⁹ Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men. ¹⁰ And Hosah, a son of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief for though he was not the oldest, his father made him chief; ¹¹ Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: Hosah had thirteen sons and brothers. ¹² Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord. ¹³ And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great. ¹⁴ And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him. ¹⁵ To Obed-edom, that on the south; and to his sons, the store-house. ¹⁶ To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of Shallecheth, at the footway which goes up, watch by watch. ¹⁷ On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north and the south four a day, and for the store-house two and two. ¹⁸ For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway and two at the pillared way itself. ¹⁹ These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.

³⁴ There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.

¹⁷ For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

¹⁰ So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said. ¹¹ And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

⁴⁵ And he said to me, This room, facing south, is for the priests who have the care of the house.

¹⁴ But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.